On Thursday night, Duke and Texas Tech played as high a level of basketball as we’ve seen this year, and that’s saying something because look at the great games we’ve seen just in March: Start with Duke-Michigan State. Look at Baylor’s just-short comeback against UNC, Notre Dame’s First Four win over Rutgers, Arizona-TCU.
This was just as good as all of them and better than most.
Duke shot 70.8 percent against Texas Tech in the second half, which was as good a half as anyone has put up against the Red Raiders in years.
And even then it was hard as hell to shake them.